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207. Christian funerary inscription of Ioanes

Description:: Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.54 x h: 0.69) of grey limestone.
Text:: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters:: ll. 1-5, 0.055-0.065; l. 6 (minuscule), 0.03-0.04.
Date:: No indication
Findspot:: Sabratha: Cemetery east of Church I, loose.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 17. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

tau-rho Bon(a)e memo-
ri(a)e Ioanes
bixit in pac-
e an<n>os LXXXV
5 p(lu)s m(i)n(us) s⌜u⌝(b) d(ie) XXVII
me(nsis) Ianuar(i) ind(ictione) V
tau-rho

tau-rho BONEMEMO
RIEIOANES
BIXITINPAC
EAN<N>OSLXXXV
5PSMNS⌜V⌝DXXVII
MEIANVARINDV
tau-rho

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

Bon

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

memo

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

Ioanes

bixit

pac

</supplied>

LXXXV

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

<sic >

</sic>

<corr>

</corr>

</choice>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

nsis

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Ianuar

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

ind

</abbr>

<ex>

ictione

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

</ab>

5, su(b)Written SY.

Translation:

( monogram cross) Of good memory, Joanes lived in peace for approximately 85 years (and died) on the 27th January in the fifth indiction. ( monogram cross)